Agapenor

Agapenor ( Greek Ἀγαπήνωρ ) is the son of Ankaios and king of the Arcadian Tegea in Greek mythology . One daughter is Laodike .

After Alkmaion was killed by Pronoos and Agenor , the brothers of his wife Arsinoë , Arsinoë disapproved of this act. Her brothers then locked her in a box and handed her over to Agapenor as a slave on the false accusation that she was the murderess of Alkmaion.

Agapenor was a suitor to Helen and leader of the Arcadians before Troy. On the way home from Troy he was sent to Cyprus , where he founded the sanctuary of Aphrodite in Paphos .

literature

Fritz Graf : Agapenor. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 1, Metzler, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-476-01471-1 , Sp. 231.
Georg Knaack : Agapenor . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 733 f.

Individual evidence

^ Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae 97
↑ Library of Apollodor 3,7,5
^ Hyginus Mythographus, Fabulae 81; Libraries of Apollodorus 3,10,8
↑ Homer , Iliad 2,609.
↑ Pausanias , Description of Greece 8,5,2.

[1] Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae 97

[2] Library of Apollodor 3,7,5

[3] Hyginus Mythographus, Fabulae 81; Libraries of Apollodorus 3,10,8

[4] Homer , Iliad 2,609.

[5] Pausanias , Description of Greece 8,5,2.